Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 10:44:27 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kld and on demand device loading Message-ID: <199812291744.KAA00510@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <199812290554.WAA23027@harmony.village.org> References: <199812290554.WAA23027@harmony.village.org>
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> In the long term, I'd love to see something like that. I believe that > it dovetails well with the new-bus project nicely. In the near term, > an area that it fits fairly well is the pcmica stuff. When a card is > inserted, the module is loaded, and when removed it is released. I looked into doing this almost 2 years ago, but unfortunately the 'unload' capability in FreeBSD is almost non-existent. Even simply 'unloading' of IRQ's doesn't work reliably, let alone network devices, SCSI bus's, serial ports, etc.... Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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